Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida once had a high-flying namesake airline. Air Florida started out as a commuter company, expanded to key cities in the ...

Hitting its stride in the late 1970s and early '80s, Air Florida embodied the heady and sometimes reckless atmosphere brought on by the deregulation of the U.S. airline industry. From its home base in ...

Eli Timoner, who founded Air Florida, turning a regional airline into an overnight international sensation, died Wednesday at the age of 92 after a long illness. In the cut-throat era of airline ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Reporter's Notebook: Forty-three years ago, the D.C. region was rocked by an air disaster that claimed 78 lives. On a snowy January afternoon, Air Florida Flight 90 slammed into ...

There they floated. Scared. Traumatized. Six people had just survived the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 into a bridge over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., in January 1982. They hung on to the ...

American Airlines Flight 5342 and a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter collided near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night. All 64 people – 60 passengers, 4 crew members – aboard AA's flight and ...

Florida once had a high-flying namesake airline. Air Florida started out as a commuter company, expanded to key cities in the state, and then evolved into a full-service carrier with flights to the ...